sneak sneak

[gentlerhalf]

(a figure. he's dressed in black, immaculate: high black shoes, black trousers, black shirt with a high collar and buttons at the cuffs and up the front. black buttons. his hair matches, curly as it is. his eyes are dark and serious. clipped on the shirt is a small card. the most important things on the card are the long black band along the bottom and the small triangle on one side.

he is very still. everything about him is blank and Off, which is a lie. but it's better to play Off in this place, strange, unknown. better to wait for sera, if sera is here. he doesn't take orders from anybody but sera. if sera isn't here--if Catlin hasn't somehow arrived before him, isn't there to orient him--he isn't going to think that or he'll psych himself. Catlin will be here and sera will be here. Catlin is his partner, and sera is sera. his Super. she wouldn't ever go away and leave him. she knows he needs her. and she needs him. but it's the worst feeling you can give an azi, especially her azi, especially--he doesn't stop looking, sensing, ever alert, but he puts that part of his head Off, definitely Off. sera is here.)

(she has to be.)

Florian is from C. J. Cherryh's Cyteen, and no matter what he says he's a little psyched already.